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'''Al-Hasakah''' ({{lang-ar|الحسكة}}, {{lang-ku|Hesîçe}}, {{lang-syr|ܚܣܟܗ}}), also known as '''Al-Hasakeh''', is the capital city of the [[Al-Hasakah Governorate]] and it is located in the far north-eastern corner of [[Syria]]. With a population of 188,160 residents in 2004, Al-Hasakah is among the 10 largest cities in Syria and the largest in the [[governorate]]. It is the administrative center of a nahiyah ("subdistrict") consisting of 108 localities with a combined population of 251,570 in 2004.<ref>[http://www.cbssyr.org/new%20web%20site/General_census/census_2004/NH/TAB08-1-2004.htm General Census of Population and Housing 2004]. [[Central Bureau of Statistics (Syria)|Syria Central Bureau of Statistics]] (CBS). Al-Hasakah Governorate. {{ar icon}}</ref> Al-Hasakah has a mixed population with the majority being [[Arabs]] and [[Kurds in Syria|Kurds]] in addition to a significant minority of [[Assyrians in Syria|Syriacs/Assyrians/Chaldeans]] and a smaller number of [[Armenians in Syria|Armenians]]. The [[Khabur River]] runs through Al-Hasakah and the rest of the governorate.

==Geography==
Al-Hasakah is 80 km south of the Turkish border-city of [[Qamishli]]. The [[Khabur River]], a tributary of the [[Euphrates River]] flows through the city, downriver from [[Ras al-Ayn, al-Hasakah Governorate|Ras al-Ayn]], another Turkish border-town. The [[Jaghjagh River]] flows into the Khabur River at Al-Hasakah.

===Districts===
The city of Al-Hasakah is divided into 5 districts, which are Al-Madinah, Al-Aziziyah, Ghuwayran, Al-Nasra and Al-Nashwa. These districts, in turn, are divided into 29 neighborhoods.<ref name=damacen>[http://www.cbssyr.org/new%20web%20site/General_census/census_2004/NH/TAB08-1-2004.htm Al-Hasakah subdistrict population 2004 census]</ref>
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![[English Language|English]] Name
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|[[Al-Madinah, Al-Hasakah|Al-Madinah]]
|المدينة
|30,436
|Al-Matar al-Shamali (9,396), Center / Al-Wista (6,067), Municipal Stadium / Al-Malaab al-Baladi (5,802), Al-Matar al-Janoubi (4,714), Al-Askari (4,457)
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|[[Al-Aziziyah]]
|العزيزية
|56,123
|Al-Salehiyah (21,319), Al-Ghazal (11,199), National Hospital / Al-Mashfa al-Watani (11,108), Al-Talaia (4,883), Abou Amshah (4,435), Al-Mufti (3,179)
|-
|[[Ghuwayran]]
|غويران
|34,191
|Sports City / Al-Madinah al-Riyadiyah (8,418), Al-Thawra (8,180), Al-Taqaddum (7,623), 16 Tishreen (5,595), Al-Zuhour (3,367), Abou Bakr (1,008)
|-
|[[Al-Nasra]]
|الناصرة
|42,070
|Tell Hajjar (10,343), Al-Kallasah (9,721), Al-Meshirfah (8,074), Al-Qusour (7,672), Al-Beitra (2,423), Al-Mashtal (2,306), Al-Maaishiyah (1,531)
|-
|[[Al-Nashwa]]
|النشوة
|25,340
|Al-Rasafah (12,618), Al-Masaken (4,968), Al-Khabour (3,805), Al-Liliyah (2,977), Villas / Al-Villat (972)
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==History==
[[File:TellBrakMitanni.jpg|thumb|left|[[Mitanni]] houses at [[Tell Brak]]]]
Al-Hasakah is surrounded by several prehistoric settlement mounds. The best known are [[Tell Brak]], 45 kilometers north-east and Tell Knedig, 20 kilometers to the south.
[[File:Hasakah,citadel.jpg|thumb|left|Excavations in 2007 on Citadel Hill. The barracks from the French Mandate, battalion Levant is in the background]]
In [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman times]] the town was insignificant. Today's settlement was established in April 1922 by a French military post. After the expulsion and [[Armenian genocide|genocide of the Armenians]] in the then Ottoman Empire many refugees fled to the city and began to develop it in the 1920s. During the French mandate period, Assyrians, fleeing ethnic cleanings in Iraq during the [[Simele massacre]], established numerous villages along the [[Khabur River]] during the 1930s. French troops were stationed on the Citadel Hill during that time. In 1942 there were 7,835 inhabitants in al-Hasakah, several schools, two churches and a gas station. The new city grew from the 1950s to the administrative center of the region. The economic boom of the cities Qamishli and al-Hasakah was a result of the irrigation projects started in the 1960s which transformed the Northeast of Syria into the main cotton-growing area. The 1970s brought oil production from the oil fields of Qara Shuk and Rumaylan in the extreme northeast.

In 2007-2008, Syrian archaeologists excavated the 2.5-acre citadel hill in the city center. They found a layer of mud-brick walls dating to the Neo-Assyrian period of the 11th to the 8th century BCE, and the remains of a [[Byzantine]] church dating from the 5th century. In the overlying layers they found traces of settlement from the early [[Islamic]] period.

==Syrian Civil War==
Hasakah is currently controlled jointly between The Syrian Army and the Kurds. Since August 2014 [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant|ISIL]] have besieged the city, having failed to enter it earlier.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.nieuwsblad.be/article/detail.aspx?articleid=DMF20140801_01200567 | title=IS-extremisten rukken op in Syrië | work=Nieuwsblad | date=1 August 2014 | accessdate=11 August 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/ar/security/2014/06/syria-hassakeh-fears-raqqa-isis.html | title=Hasakah residents fear ISIS rally in east Syria | work=al-Safir | date=24 June 2014 | accessdate=11 August 2014 | author=Halabi, Alaa}}</ref>

==Demographics==
{{Historical populations
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|1942|7835 |1981|73426 |1994|119798 |2004|188160
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In 2004 the population was 188,160. The population consists mostly of [[Arabs]] and [[Kurds in Syria|Kurds]] in addition to a significant number of [[Assyrians in Syria|Syriacs/Assyrians/Chaldeans]] and a smaller number of [[Armenians in Syria|Armenians]]. There are at least nine church buildings in the city as a visible sign of a large number of Christians of various Christian rites. Although by contrast, there are more than forty mosques in the city.

==Sports==
[[File:Al-Jazeera fans, al-Hasakah stadium, Syria.jpg|thumb|[[Bassel al-Assad Stadium (al-Hasakah)|Bassel al-Assad Stadium]]]]
[[Al-Jazeera SC Hasakah]] is the largest football club in the city and plays at [[Bassel al-Assad Stadium (al-Hasakah)|Bassel al-Assad Stadium]].

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:St George cathedral - Hassaké, Syria - كاتدرائية مار جرجس.jpg|Saint George Cathedral
File:Hasakah,armen.church.jpg|Assyrian church in Al-Hasakah
File:Tal hajar Quarter in AL-Hasakah.JPG|Tell Hajjar neighborhood in Al-Hasakah
</gallery>

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Al-Hasakah Governorate|hasakah}}

{{Cities of Syria}}

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[[Category:Assyrian settlements]]
[[Category:Cities in Syria]]
[[Category:Populated places in al-Hasakah District]]
[[Category:Fertile Crescent]]

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